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Blink reflex nerve test

CPT 95933the billing code this page is about

Electrical stimulation of a facial nerve with recording of the eyelid muscle blink response to assess nerve and reflex function.

Hospitals typically charge $158 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 863 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $171. Most fall between $70 and $326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
863
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 863 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$55$74$158$297$436

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $436).

How the prices are spread

$37 – $48: 29 hospitals$37$48 – $64: 55 hospitals$64 – $84: 126 hospitals$64$84 – $111: 89 hospitals$111 – $146: 59 hospitals$111$146 – $192: 115 hospitals$192 – $253: 71 hospitals$192$253 – $333: 118 hospitals$333 – $438: 76 hospitals$333$438 – $577: 43 hospitals$438median $158price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (781 of 863 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$37$4829
$48$6455
$64$84126
$84$11189
$111$14659
$146$192115
$192$25371
$253$333118
$333$43876
$438$57743

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$158
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $158.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $145 across 15 hospitalsWA$145Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $253 across 21 hospitalsMN$253Illinois: median $151 across 34 hospitalsIL$151Wisconsin: median $268 across 27 hospitalsWI$268Michigan: median $98 across 42 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $85 across 40 hospitalsNY$85Massachusetts: median $468 across 21 hospitalsMA$468Oregon: median $78 across 12 hospitalsOR$78Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $71 across 15 hospitalsIA$71Indiana: median $110 across 35 hospitalsIN$110Ohio: median $242 across 37 hospitalsOH$242Pennsylvania: median $134 across 59 hospitalsPA$134New Jersey: median $76 across 20 hospitalsNJ$76Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $175 across 52 hospitalsCA$175Utah: median $390 across 10 hospitalsUT$390Colorado: median $149 across 16 hospitalsCO$149Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $146 across 26 hospitalsMO$146Kentucky: median $239 across 22 hospitalsKY$239West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $222 across 27 hospitalsVA$222Maryland: median $177 across 16 hospitalsMD$177Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $411 across 12 hospitalsAZ$411New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $66 across 21 hospitalsTN$66North Carolina: median $163 across 25 hospitalsNC$163South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $60 across 18 hospitalsOK$60Louisiana: median $71 across 16 hospitalsLA$71Mississippi: median $70 across 17 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $127 across 20 hospitalsGA$127Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $280 across 55 hospitalsTX$280Florida: median $173 across 41 hospitalsFL$173
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $158. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA21$468+197%$230 – $872
Arizona AZ12$411+161%$131 – $411
Utah UT10$390+147%$312 – $390
Texas TX55$280+78%$88 – $326
Wisconsin WI27$268+70%$187 – $306
Minnesota MN21$253+60%$32 – $297
Ohio OH37$242+54%$147 – $442
Kentucky KY22$239+51%$88 – $374
Virginia VA27$222+41%$66 – $266
Maryland MD16$177+12%$107 – $247
California CA52$175+11%$162 – $326
Florida FL41$173+10%$71 – $293
North Carolina NC25$163+4%$78 – $226
Illinois IL34$151−4%$71 – $369
Colorado CO16$149−6%$82 – $285
Missouri MO26$146−7%$90 – $499
Washington WA15$145−8%$109 – $158
Pennsylvania PA59$134−15%$55 – $378
Georgia GA20$127−19%$127 – $183
Indiana IN35$110−30%$84 – $334
Michigan MI42$98−38%$37 – $340
New York NY40$85−46%$70 – $315
Oregon OR12$78−51%$56 – $861
New Jersey NJ20$76−52%$66 – $501
Iowa IA15$71−55%$66 – $210
Louisiana LA16$71−55%$32 – $123
Mississippi MS17$70−56%$53 – $103
Tennessee TN21$66−58%$51 – $103
Oklahoma OK18$60−62%$60 – $96
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $158.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care744$157$70 – $326
Children’s28$291$112 – $512
Critical access87$146$84 – $297
Ownership
For-profit66$188$90 – $442
Government107$130$66 – $226
Non-profit686$160$70 – $326
System affiliation
Part of a system751$160$70 – $326
Independent112$148$72 – $293

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$312
Median cash price$158
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

622 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $175 and the average of the middle 60% is $185; most fall between $71 and $326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 622 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$60$88$175$310$449

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $449).

Of the 652 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 622 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

863 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 901 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted863
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code901

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Orbicularis Oculi Reflx Electrodiagnostic Test.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blink reflex nerve test (CPT 95933) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95933-blink-reflex-nerve-test